The Latest Breaking News from SA

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has empathised with rising anxiety levels among Riverland communities over rising flood waters.

A social worker has told an inquest in Adelaide into the death of a baby who had been living in squalor that there was no information to raise alarm bells about the situation, despite multiple prior notifications about poor living conditions.

Disposable nappies are convenient but come at a huge cost to the environment. Efforts are underway near Adelaide to recycle some of the hundreds of millions that end up in Australian landfill every year.

WARNING: Readers may find details in this story distressing. The opening day of an inquest hears SA child protection authorities did not intervene in the 10 days before an 11-week-old boy died in "disgusting squalor" because one of its regional offices "had no capacity to deal with the notification".

River Murray flood victims will have access to more funds for emergency accommodation, SA Premier Peter Malinauskas has announced.

A man and a teenage boy face court, accused of raping two young women in a car park off Hindley Street in Adelaide's CBD over the weekend.

The South Australian State Emergency Service has issued its first specific flood warning for residents in Renmark as Murray River water levels continue to rise.

Federal and state Labor heavyweights are going toe-to-toe on nuclear energy, with the SA premier suggesting safety concerns are overblown.

Six Aboriginal leaders will be shortlisted from more than 100 nominations to have new statues built, as part of a $1 million project to honour First Nations history in SA.